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2016 Surry County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Surry County, VA went without power for an average of 6.3 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 83rd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 544th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Surry County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 16, 2016 01:30 | January 16, 2016 05:00 | 3h 30m | 1,566 | 2,543 |
| 2 | February 24, 2016 21:15 | February 25, 2016 03:15 | 6h | 1,538 | 767 |
| 3 | February 4, 2016 13:30 | February 4, 2016 17:00 | 3h 30m | 1,537 | 808 |
| 4 | August 14, 2016 06:15 | August 14, 2016 12:45 | 6h 30m | 1,147 | 2,265 |
| 5 | October 8, 2016 23:00 | October 12, 2016 17:15 | 3d 18h | 448 | 7,593 |
| 6 | August 15, 2016 21:30 | August 15, 2016 23:45 | 2h 15m | 442 | 775 |
| 7 | November 23, 2016 02:15 | November 23, 2016 07:15 | 5h | 310 | 242 |
| 8 | October 22, 2016 05:15 | October 22, 2016 16:45 | 11h 30m | 116 | 798 |
| 9 | May 23, 2016 06:30 | May 23, 2016 10:15 | 3h 45m | 107 | 324 |
| 10 | July 28, 2016 16:30 | July 28, 2016 18:45 | 2h 15m | 33 | 74 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 9 reached 100+ customers, 4 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Surry County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prince George Electric Coop | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | - | 2.1 hrs | - |
| Community Electric Coop | 2016 | 8.1 hrs | 2.10 | 3.9 hrs | 1.52 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Virginia's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,816 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Surry County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Surry County, VA annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/virginia/surry-county